I am really beginning to look forward to seeing Jeremy Corbyn’s first shadow cabinet. He will have some real gems to promote to his front bench line-up.
As Secretary of State for Education, why not Diane Abbott? She’s a highly principled left-winger who feels so strongly about education that she sent her son to a private school! Corbyn will relate to that because his own son went to private school, too, but don’t worry: his estranged wife was the one who sent him there, not Jezza, so that’s all right, then.
Home Secretary: how about John McDonnell? Corbyn will like his stance on the troubles in Northern Ireland! How about this gem? “It’s about time we started honouring those people involved in the armed struggle. It was the bombs and bullets and sacrifice made by the likes of Bobby Sands that brought Britain to the negotiating table. The peace we have now is due to the action of the IRA.” I’m sure the victims of Omagh, not to mention countless others murdered in cold blood by the IRA will sympathise with McDonnell, here. McDonnell could combine this portfolio with Health because he supports homeopathy too, even though it doesn’t work!
He’d have to find jobs for the likes of Margaret Beckett, the self-styled “moron” who helped put Corbyn on the ballot paper, Frank Field, someone in the Labour Party I would genuinely describe as being on the right of politics, Emily “white van man” Thornberry as well as David Lammy and Sadiq Khan, both proving what crap London mayoral candidates they’d be.
I’m well resigned for the short and catastrophic leadership of Corbyn who will quickly prove he is not up to the job of running a whelk stall, never mind leading what used to be a major political party. I doubt that he will last a year in the job, soon preferring the simplicity of life on the back benches, sitting with people who agree with him. The damage will be done by then and the next leader will have too many pieces to put back together before 2020 to give Labour any chance at all.
